Mineral Processing: Ore and ore body, parameters defining economy of ore processing, Liberation, communication, crushing, grinding, sizing, classification, Principles of minerals beneficiation such as heavy media separation, jigging, tabling, magnetic and electrostatic separation, Flotation, Solid – Liquid separation.

Principles of Extraction of Metals: Role of Ellingham diagram and phase stability diagrams, drying, calcinations, roasting and its types, smelting and its types, Principles of Leaching, simple dissolution, oxidative and reductive leaching, types of leaching in sites leaching, heap leaching, vat leaching, agitation leaching, pressure leaching, bio leaching solution extraction, ion exchange, Electrode potential, Electrochemical cell, electrochemical series, Eh – ph diagram. Faradays’ Law, Cell voltage, current density, current efficiency, Electro-winning, Electro refining, direct electowining, fused – salt electrolysis.

Mass and Energy balance through rigorous numeral analysis of metal extraction processes to design

Practices of Metal Extraction: (1) Pyrometallurigical extraction of copper: flowsheet, flotation, roasting, matte smelting, converting, refining. (2) Pyrometallurgical extraction of nickel: flowsheet, roasting, matte smelting, (3) Pyometallurgical extraction of zinc and lead: flowsheet, flotation, roasting, sintering, smelting, refining, (4) Extraction of Titanium: Flowsheet – Kroll’s process, carbochlorination, (5) Extraction of Magnesium. (6) (A) Hydrometallurgy of Zinc: flowsheet flotation roasting, solution purification, electrowinning, (B) pressure – Leaching – EW. (7) Hydrometallurgy of copper flowsheet, heap leching/bioleach/roast – leach, solvent extraction, electrowinning. (8) Hydrometallurgy of nickel: (A) Pressure leaching electowinning, (B) Direct – electowinning of Mette – anode, (C) Lattierite processing (1) H2SO4 pressure leaching and (2) Roasting – Ammoniazed leaching – BNC precipitation, (9) Metallurgy of Uranium: flowshet in-situ / heap/ vat – leaching – solution purification, production of UO2, (9) Metallurgy of Au and Ag: flowsheet – leaching – purification – EW, (11) Metallurgy of Aluminium – Bayers process, Hall – Heroult process, anode preparation, electrolyte, energy consumption, (12) Metallurgy (fused salt – EW) of CA, Mg, Na: flowsheet.

Environment and Energy

To understand the principles of non-ferrous metal extraction and refining

Indian and Global scenario of non-ferrous metal extraction

Basic thermodynamics and kinetics principles of metal extraction

Principles of general extraction and refining starting from Pyrometallurgy, Hydrometallurgy to Electrometallurgy

Application of the principles for various non-ferrous metal extractions, principally metals like Al, Cu, Zn, U, Rare Earth

Industrial practices of Metal extraction in Indian and global context along with a note on newer routes of extraction and their potential for commercialization

Mass and Energy balance through rigorous numeral analysis of metal extraction processes to design

Use of modern tools such as simulation software to analyze and propose different unit processes of extraction for metal extraction

M. Shamsuddin, Physical Chemistry of Metallurgical Processes, Willey , The book presents the physical chemistry aspects concerning chemical metallurgy with appropriate examples, as much as possible from various extractive metallurgical processes. A must for all the under graduate Metallurgists.

H. S. Ray, R. Sridhar, K. P. Abraham, Extraction of Non-ferrous Metals, Affiliated East-West Press Pvt. Ltd. , The text book is designed to meet the needs of the undergraduate students and practising Metallurgists

J. J. Moore, Chemical Metallurgy, Butterworth-Heinemann , This book provides the fundamental chemical principles and demonstrates the application of these principles to process metallurgy, materials synthesis and processing

C. Bodsworth, Extraction and Refining of Metals, CRC Press , This reference book is designed to meet the needs of the undergraduate students and practising Metallurgists.

T. Rosenquist, Principles of Extractive Metallurgy, McGraw hill , This reference book is designed to meet the needs of the undergraduate students and practising Metallurgists.

Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy, https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ympm21

Minerals engineering, https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/minerals-engineering